Esquimo knife

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Object Number 67-24-10/643

Display Title Esquimo knife

Descriptions

Inventory Description Knife, metal blade nailed to carved bone handle, carved finger grips, drill inde

Classification

Knife

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Eskimo

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / Canada / Northwest Territories

Additional Geographic Terms Anderson River

Materials Bone, Metal

Dimensions Overall: 12 x 2.2 x 0.9 cm (4 3/4 x 7/8 x 3/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 643

Provenance

Collector Robert MacFarlane (?)

Donor Smithsonian Institution (1868)

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